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The 6-Point Divisor Plan is an Australian horse racing staking plan from 1989, and the thing that keeps it survivable is not the arithmetic — it is the safety brake. You run into four losers in a r...
Weight ratings or speed ratings? Philip Roy tested both on Australian horse racing form, three months at the Sydney tracks, and one of them finished a long way in front. Writing in Practical Puntin...
In Australian horse racing, 99 per cent of punters fail to make money over a 12-month period — and exotic betting is where they lose fastest. Don Scott, a professional punter who spent the sixties ...
There is no short cut in Australian horse racing, and Don Scott is the proof: he worked 12 to 14 hours a day, seven days a week, at form study. Practical Punting's Brian Blackwell interviewed him i...
In Australian horse racing, most punters bet with bookmakers all their lives without ever learning how a bookie makes his book, and it is hard to beat a man at a job you cannot describe. Statsman, ...
In Australian horse racing, backing three horses in a race dramatically shortens the odds you are really betting — the board price is not your price. Philip Roy answered a reader who wanted to d...
Favourites win around 30 per cent of races and lose the other 70 — which is why betting every favourite in Australian horse racing grinds you down. A writer going by Mr Money took that apart for Pr...
You can back winners all year in Australian horse racing and still finish the year behind — that is a staking problem, not a selection problem. Philip Roy wrote about it for Practical Punting in Ma...
Framing your own betting market in Australian horse racing means putting a price on a horse yourself — estimating its percentage chance, just as a bookmaker does. Denton Jardine wrote this one for ...
A bookmaker's price is only an opinion — which is where framing your own betting market in Australian horse racing starts. Denton Jardine wrote this one for Practical Punting in August 1995, and he...
The West Aussies are coming...Melbourne's spring is likely to be enlivened by some good horses from WA. One of them is Grp I winning Perth star Luckygray. He stamped himself a spring carnival conte...
The build-up to the 2013 Spring Racing Carnival continues with the Victoria Racing Club (VRC) announcing general admission tickets for the 2013 Melbourne Cup Carnival are now available through Ti...
Worrying trend? The number of interstate visitors who came for Melbourne's spring carnival last year fell by 13.5 per cent, from 65,419 to 56,595. In all, there were more than 78,000 out-of-state v...
It's a winner...The VRC is beating the drum for the Melbourne spring carnival and its ability to drag in mega-millions. It says the spring carnival provides a major stimulus to Victoria and Austral...
Will Mike Moroney be a big player in this year's Melbourne spring carnival? Well, he's looking good right now. A few members of his team can certainly lay claim to being spring prospects. Firstly, ...
MELBOURNE’S Cup carnival impact is extending way beyond the racetracks . The economic benefit to the Victoria economy, driven through the spring carnival, value-added contribution to Victoria...
RACING Victoria chief steward Terry Bailey believes the introduction of padded whips and restricted use of them, which comes into force on Saturday at Caulfield, will face its greatest test at this...
Feature spring carnival sprint races beckon star Toowoomba sprinter Temple of Boom following his emphatic win in Sat's $151,000 Group Three Aurie's Star Handicap (1200m) at Flemington. The win was ...
Back in business...Chris Munce has been granted a licence to ride in Victoria following the end of his controversial suspension by the Hong Kong Jockey Club. The popular jockey will be free to take...
Italian import Sneak A Peek is back in work for trainer Peter Moody